The corpus record — Latin

salvator

salvator · m

a saviour

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Where it lives

Dittochaeon 1 · 8.17/10k
Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 1 · 7.71/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 16 · 3.66/10k
Cathemerina 1 · 1.36/10k
Adversus Judaeos Liber 1 · 0.89/10k
Contra Symmachum 1 · 0.83/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.65/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Adversus Marcionem 2 · 0.24/10k

What it meant

salvātor — Lewis & Short

salvātor, ōris, m.id..

I In gen., a saviour, preserver (late Lat.; class. servator): Cicero Soterem salvatorem noluit nominare, Mart. Cap. 5, § 510; Vulg. Isa. 17, 10: IOVI SALVATORI, Inscr. Grut. 19.—

II In partic., in the Vulg. and Christian fathers, as a transl. of swth/r and Jesus (Heb. ), the Saviour, Redeemer: Christus Jesus, id est Christus Salvator: hoc est enim Latine Jesus ... Salus Latinum nomen est: salvare et salvator non fuerunt haec Latina, antequam veniret Salvator, etc., Aug. Serm. 299, 6; cf. id. Trin. 13, 10 fin.; Tert. adv. Marc. 3, 18; Lact. 4, 12, 6; Prud. stef. 1, 115; Vulg. Luc. 2, 11; Sedul. 2, 155 et saep.

In the wild

salvator Ausonius, Ephemeris id est totius diei negotium 3.81
salvator Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 60.7
salvatoris Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 4.14
salvator Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 127.10
salvatoris Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 127.5
salvatore Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 59.5

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Where it came from

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